https://autos.yahoo.com/blogs/motora...134329643.html

 

 

I wonder why they didn't go with the badass v8? Would of been more "supercar" would it not?

 

hnnnnnnnnnnnnnnng

 

Wasn't the V8 Atom a limited-production novelty with a base price well north of $200k?

 

I honestly can't see the point in buying one of these. I mean, it's $120k and it doesn't even fly. Who would waste their money on this thing when your other option is this?

 

what makes a v8 drive the price up so much and not a smaller engine with both a supercharger and turbo?

 

Because racecar.

 

But seriously, because of the fact that the smaller engine, supercharger and turbo (and the transmission to which they were attached) were all mass produced off-the-shelf parts from major manufacturers, rather than something custom-made by Hartley Engineering specifically for that one car in a small batch, mated to a bespoke Sadev sequential-shift gearbox.

Also, for the same reason that a cup holder costs $950 if you buy it from Porsche.

Also because they only produced 25 V8 Atoms in total, in order to create artificial scarcity aka "exclusivity."

 

thanks for the schooling.

i didn't realize the v8 atoms were so custom one-off. I saw a few of them down at VIR, since they live there.